Re: shrinking the ZTK: a proposed solution
Jens Vagelpohl <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.web.zope.devel |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hermann Himmelbauer wrote: > Am Montag 04 Januar 2010 23:10:05 schrieb Tres Seaver: >> Martijn Faassen wrote: >>> Obviously I cannot *force* ZTK >>> maintainers to worry about this. Instead I'm appealing to your >>> self-interest. And of course the transition burden is shared and should >>> not fall solely or even predominantly on the ZTK maintainers. >> My self-interest? Not really: you are appealing to my altruism, in the >> fact that I care about the *broader* Zope community (broader than Zope2, >> Grok, Plone, or whatever. Neither of my chosen platforms (Zope2, bfg) >> rely any longer on any of thsoe pacakages at all, which makes my direct >> interest in them exactly zero. > > If the ZTK is decoupled from other users, e.g. from people who rely on > zope.app, then they will simply not use it, or do a fork. > > This way, ZTK users are lost, which also leads to a loss of supporters and > developers and results in a shrinking interest in ZTK, whose primary goal > was/is to be _the_ base for all other Zope-based applications. How is that any different from people who won't use the ZTK because they don't want to deal with any zope.app* baggage? jens -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAktDOoMACgkQRAx5nvEhZLJKSwCgiQc3RIgtiDrL+CPib5mMr0WM /aoAoKNl0YZCL7B78Q8fp53xn8UecQF5 =X5h+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [email protected] https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )